In reply to Alec.

Very interesting about Postmatic. If you post Markdown links into an email they don't get converted (emails are plain text evidently and processed literally). We should include literal HTML markup (not converted and wrapped but plain text). Will give that a try now.

If it's successful, I would be very grateful is someone could delete the first version of this comment above. Sorry for the meta activity! Normally I load the page to comment but would like to take advantage of the comment by email functionality.

Yes, the links come through but paragraphs are not well respected and the spacing seems strange. Line breaks are sometimes out of place as well. There's no chance to correct your text (no timer, even if you are logged in with the same account as I am now). End result, unless it's a very short comment with no formatting, one is better off commenting in the comment form.